Team

Vincent is a Managing Partner and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Vincent co-founded Ardian (previously AXA Private Equity), having joined AXA Private Equity in 1998. He was an Executive Board Member and the Global Head of Funds of Funds and Private Debt at Ardian until his departure in December 2020.

As Head of Ardian Fund of Funds, he led the creation of the platform, developing both the primary and secondary activities from their origin. As such he was involved in all aspects of investment and corporate management, from organization, fundraising, execution, monitoring and new product launches. He chaired the Fund of Funds investment committees, and was a member of the co-investment, private debt, infrastructure, and buyout committees. As Executive Board member at Ardian, he oversaw and managed the company’s growth and spin-out from AXA Private Equity.

He has previously worked at Compagnie Industrielle du Levant and in M&A at Société Générale. He started his career in the French Trade Commission in Detroit in 1990.

Vincent holds a Master’s in Finance from ESSEC Business school (where he was subsequently a professor and continues to hold an annual lecture) and a Law degree from Paris X.

Ingmar is a Managing Partner and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, he worked at Ardian (previously AXA Private Equity), which he joined in 2005. He was a Senior Managing Director at Ardian focusing on Fund-of-Funds and Co-investment until his departure in May 2021. In addition to his role in sourcing and executing transactions, he was involved in all organizational aspects of the Fund-of-funds business, from to risk management to fund finance, IT, legal and compliance.

He holds a Master’s degree from ESSEC Business school where he currently holds an annual lecture.

David is a Partner and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, David was a Managing Director at Rothschild Five Arrows. As Head of U.S. Origination, he sourced private equity deal flow across secondaries, primaries and co-investments.

Before joining Rothschild, he was Head of Private Equity for the Bureau of Asset Management in the Office of the New York City Comptroller. In this role, he managed a $23 billion private equity portfolio for the five New York City retirement systems (Teachers, Employees, Fire, Police and Board of Education) and successfully established a private equity co-investment program.

Previously, he was an investment banker at Rothschild & Co, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns where he worked on financing and strategic advisory transactions. David began his career as an M&A lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell.

David holds an A.B. from Brown University, magna cum laude; an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs; and, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Inigo is a Partner and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Inigo was a Managing Director in the Fund of Funds team at Ardian, where he was responsible for primary and secondary investments in private equity and infrastructure funds.

Alongside his principal role executing secondary private equity deals at Ardian, he had numerous additional responsibilities across the group from HR and sustainability to risk management and new product launches. He was a board member of the Ardian Foundation and member of the Ardian Carbon Group.

Inigo holds a first-class MA (Hons.) History degree from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the highest undergraduate degree and the Senior Tutor’s prize at Homerton College. He also holds an MSc in Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health from the University of Edinburgh.

Jonathan Hillgarth-Williams is a Partner and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Jonathan was a Director and member of the Fund of Funds team at Ardian for 10 years, where he was responsible for primary and secondary investments in private equity and infrastructure funds.

Jonathan holds a first-class MA (Hons.) in Music degree from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Sophia Turle Scholar and was awarded the highest undergraduate prize of Girton College, Cambridge.

Joshua is a Partner and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Joshua was a Senior Investment Manager in the Fund of Funds team at Ardian, where he was responsible for primary and secondary investments in private equity and infrastructure funds.

Joshua holds an MA (Hons.) in Politics, Psychology and Sociology from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Scholar of St John’s College at the Wright Level awarded for undergraduate performance. Following Cambridge, Joshua completed a Master’s in Management at London Business School.

Harry is a Partner and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Harry was the founder and CEO of RockSling Analytics, a company specialized in artificial intelligence for private equity. Harry created advanced machine learning frameworks for large institutional investors that have been used to analyze more than $100 billion of exposure across thousands of private equity funds.

Before founding RockSling Analytics, he worked for Coller Capital in London as a Data Scientist in the investment team. He oversaw the development of quantitative solutions that have been used globally to price opportunities in the secondary market.

Harry started his career in London as a quantitative analyst within the Alternative Modeling Group of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Harry holds a PhD in econometrics from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB); a MSc in statistics from ULB, summa cum laude; and an MSc in Finance from the Solvay Brussels School, magna cum laude.

Franck is a Senior Advisor and a member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Franck was a Senior Managing Director at Ardian based in Paris and subsequently in London. He participated in the creation of the private equity Fund of Funds platform, developing the primary and secondary activities from their origin in 1997. As such he was involved in all aspects of the business, from organization, fundraising, investment and monitoring. He was member of the Ardian Fund of Funds investment committees, and of the co-investment, private debt and infrastructure committees.

Franck began his professional career as an analyst at GAN Private Equity. He holds a MBA in Financial Engineering from ESLSCA and a Bachelor in Management and Finance from ESG.

Paul is the Chief Technology Officer and a member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Paul was the CTO at Rocksling Analytics, a company specialising in artificial intelligence and analytics for private equity investors. He has been responsible for building the platform that supports the analysis of more than $100 billion of exposure across thousands of private equity funds.

Before joining Rocksling, he worked at Coller Capital for 17 years, initially within the IT function before moving to the investment team. He built and supported applications for both the back and front office teams. From the fund accounting platform that provided monitoring of, and insight into, the >$20 billion AUM, to the deal management platform that was used to screen >$50 billion of opportunities per annum. After moving to the investment team he was part of the data science function where he built tools to simplify and optimise the deal analysis process and allow the rapid pricing of portfolios.

Sabrina Vallano is the General Counsel and a member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Sabrina was Senior Managing Lawyer at Ardian. She started working at Ardian in 2006 in Paris and subsequently in London in 2012. She overseen the creation, structuring and management/advisory of investments funds in several jurisdictions (including France, Luxembourg and UK) and activities (Funds of Funds, Buyout funds, Expansion Funds and Venture Capital).

Sabrina holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and a Professional Master’s Degree in European and International law from the Faculty of Law and political science of Aix-en-Provence.

Millie is Chief Financial Officer and responsible for Clipway’s finance function.

Prior to Clipway, Millie was Head of Investment Monitoring at Coller Capital where she was responsible for investment valuations and monitoring and reporting for investment structures. She also worked closely alongside colleagues overseeing treasury and fund financial reporting. Millie worked in the Coller Capital finance team for 5 years.

Millie is an ACA qualified Chartered Accountant and trained as an auditor at Smith & Williamson (now Evelyn Partners) in London.

Millie holds a first-class MA (Hons.) degree in Natural Sciences, specialising in Chemistry, from the University of Cambridge.

Amaury is a Managing Director and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Amaury was an Investment Manager in the Fund of Funds team at Ardian, where he was responsible for primary and secondary investments in private equity and infrastructure funds. Previously, Amaury gained work experience in finance at BPCE.

Amaury holds a Master’s in Finance from ESSEC Business School and a Master’s degree in Engineering from HEI.

Nick is a Managing Director and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Nick served as a Senior Private Equity Investment Analyst for the Bureau of Asset Management in the Office of the New York City Comptroller where he helped managed the $23 billion Private Equity portfolio for the five New York City retirement systems (Teachers, Employees, Fire, Police and Board of Education) and played a key role in establishing a private equity co-investment program. During his time there, Nick worked on over $2 billion of fund commitments and co-investments across buyout, growth equity, and secondaries strategies in North America and Europe.

Previously, he spent two years as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs within the Global Industrials Group where he gained broad M&A and transaction experience.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University at Albany SUNY, magna cum laude, and an M.B.A from the Yale School of Management where he attended on partial merit scholarship.

Iaro is a Principal and member of the founding team of Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Iaro was a Senior Investment Manager in the fund of funds team at Ardian. He was based in London and responsible for primary and secondary investments in private equity. Before joining Ardian, Iaro worked in a private equity firm specialised in turnarounds based in New York and Paris where he was responsible for deal making and the oversight of operations.

Iaro holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialization in finance from ESSEC Business School.

Adam Flowerday is Lead Developer at Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, he held the position of Lead Developer at Coller Capital, where he worked for 13 years. During his early years at Coller, he was involved with the development and maintenance of the firm’s back office accounting system. At that time he specialised in US and UK Tax, including accounting for catch-up and carry within the UK Tax process.

In his later years at Coller, Adam led the Applications Team, which he shaped into an agile team, delivering solutions and support to front and back office functions. He worked closely with Data Science, offering solutions as a service, which allowed the Data Scientists to focus on mathematical modelling, and lean on the Applications Team for further development and productionisation services.

Before Coller, he was a contractor working across various industries.

Adam is a Microsoft Azure Accredited Azure Developer Associate, and holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Exeter.

Alexandru is the Financial Controller in the Finance team at Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Alexandru has gained over 5 years’ experience at Coller Capital in the Investment Monitoring team, as a Finance Manager. At Coller Capital, Alexandru specialised in investment valuations, portfolio monitoring as well as other Fund Finance functions. In his last year, he worked closely alongside the Credit CIO on credit secondaries portfolio construction and performance monitoring.

Before his time at Coller Capital, Alexandru worked for 4 years as a Fund Accountant at IQ-EQ (Augentius).

Alexandru qualified as an ACCA Chartered Certified Accountant in 2017 and holds a BSc in Business and Management from Brunel University London.

Juliette is an Investor Relations Manager at Clipway.

Prior to joining Clipway, Juliette was an Associate at Lazard where she focused on advising private equity and real estate general partners on structuring and raising capital for their investment activities.

Prior to Lazard, Juliette was an Associate at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she focused on fundraising with Swiss institutional and retail investors.

Juliette holds a BSc (Hons.) in Economics from the University of Warwick and an MSc in Finance from ESSEC Business School.

Hannah is a Junior Lawyer at Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Hannah was an Associate in the funds team at Travers Smith LLP. Hannah has experience in primary fundraising, LP representation, fund formation across a variety of jurisdictions, and GP and LP-led secondary transactions.

Hannah holds an MA with Honours in International Relations from the University of St Andrews and completed a Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law in London.

Lauren is an Executive Assistant at Clipway.

Prior to joining Clipway, Lauren gained over 11 years’ experience working as Executive Assistant to the founders and business leaders of firms such as Jupiter Asset Management and Mediobanca S.p.A.

Whilst at Seven Investment Management, Lauren qualified as a Client Advisor, working alongside Financial Advisors to manage client investments.

Lauren holds a BA (Hons.) in Theology from The University of Nottingham and has run an award-winning fine antique jewellery company for the past seven years.

Sofya is an Investment Analyst at Clipway.

She holds a BA in Economics with minors in Mathematics and Business Studies from New York University.

Hugo is an Investment Analyst at Clipway.

Prior to Clipway he worked in the FinTech industry for VALK Tech between 2021 and 2023.

He holds a first-class BSc (Hons.) in Philosophy and Economics from the London School of Economics, having graduated in 2021.

Nina is an Investment Analyst at Clipway.

Prior to Clipway, Nina worked as a Global Markets Analyst at Credit Suisse.

She holds an MSc in Financial Analysis at London Business School and a BSc in International Management from King’s College London.

Julien is an Investment Analyst at Clipway.

He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration with distinction from ESSEC Business School, as well as an Academic Diploma in Innovation Management at UC Berkeley Global.

Alexandre is an Investment Analyst at Clipway.

He holds an MSc in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Enterprise Development at the University of Westminster and a BA from Oxford Brookes University.

James is an Investment Analyst at Clipway.

He holds an MSc in Finance & International Business from the University of Exeter and a BSc in Economics from the Pantheon-Assas University.

Dan is a Financial Analyst and a member of Clipway’s finance function.

Dan is an ACA Chartered Accountant and prior to Clipway trained as an auditor at Mazars in London.

He holds a BSc in Economics from Loughborough University.